Four Million Dollars Rise
pp. 41-42 · Read in the full issue
In Hawaii Revenue
From Our Own Correspondent
Honolulu, Oct. 26.
are only mere dots on the map but some idea of the wealth of the Hawaiian Islands is gleaned from Wash ington where the U.S. Treasury Depart ment announces that there was a total of 11,634,000 dollars (£A2,908,500) fed eral tax collections made in Hawaii dur ing the 1936-37 fiscal year, a rise of 4,000,000 dollars on the previous year.
Hawaii’s contribution exceeds that paid by each of 18 American States. The basic industries, sugar and pineapple, and their by-products which are being inten sively developed, are booming. In step with the times, the U.S. Government is developing plans for the construction forthwith of a new customs house, cost ing more than 500,000 dollars, which will be part of a huge new pier in Honolulu harbour, Mr. F. A. Roberg, Victorian mining engineer, has joined the board of direc tors of Developments (New Guinea) N.L.
Miss Doris Jaques, of Petersham, N.S.W., sailed from Sydney for New Guinea by the Montoro on October 30 to be married to Mr. Theo. Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Thomas, of Rabaul.
The couple will make their home at Bitapaka.
Mr. M. M. Brodie, manager of Union Soaps Ltd. and the Pacific Biscuit Co., Suva, Fiji, paid a short business visit to New Zealand during October.